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About the Role
This role provides strategic leadership to category leads, driving high-quality delivery and functional development for a major national rail programme focused on delivering a modern, electrified high-speed corridor. You will lead and develop teams, strengthen client and stakeholder relationships, and oversee performance, capability, and career growth.
Responsibilities
- Leads category management teams and high-value tender activity.
- Builds strong senior stakeholder relationships.
- Oversees performance, capability and career development.
- Provides expert due diligence and market insight.
- Drives process, performance and commercial value.
- Develops and embeds strategic plans.
- Role-models leadership behaviours.
- Supports net-zero delivery through proactive carbon management.
- Champion a safe, diverse and inclusive working environment.
- Lead on cost management services including estimating, procurement and cost planning.
- Own the quality of deliverables, strategic outcomes and building long term relationships with clients.
- Lead operations that are fiscally and ethically viable.
- Influence the achievement of business objectives that align with business and legislative compliance obligations.
- Mentor, coach, and develop teams.
- Demonstrate effective leadership to ensure excellence in delivery against plans.
- Champion a continuous improvement culture throughout all activities.
Requirements
- Experience delivering major rail or high speed programmes, ideally within the design or early set up stages.
- Strong commercial, tender and negotiation expertise at executive level.
- Proven project delivery with construction and market knowledge.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office and analytical tools.
Skills
- Category management
- Tender management
- Stakeholder relationship management
- Performance management
- Capability development
- Career development
- Due diligence
- Market insight
- Process improvement
- Commercial value optimization
- Strategic planning
- Leadership
- Carbon management
- Cost management
- Estimating
- Procurement
- Cost planning
- Client relationship building
- Fiscal management
- Ethical operations
- Business objective alignment
- Legislative compliance
- Mentoring
- Coaching
- Continuous improvement
Location
- On-site
Work Type
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Hybrid working
Experience Level
- Executive level
Education Level
- Degree-educated
- CIPS or equivalent industry qualifications preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $150,000 - $230,000
About the Company
- Mace combines construction expertise with consultancy to unlock potential in every person or project and redefine the boundaries of ambition.
- Our values shape the way we consult and define the people we want to join us on our journey.
Equal Opportunity
- Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates. Even if you feel you do not fulfil all the criteria, please apply as you may still be the best candidate for this role or another role within our organisation.